UK considering leaving human rights convention to force Rwanda deportations

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  1. Of course, this was the ultimate aim. What better way to strip rights from people than to get them to tacitly agree because the rights convention stops the forced deportation of a handful of brown skinned people?

  2. what a fucking state our country is in, i doubt there is anyone alive in the UK today that has been around when we have had such a shower of self serving cunts in government.

  3. The only thing more predictable then the government is the population. God they are so gullable.

    “refugees have rights?! That’s it, I’m getting rid of theirs along with mine! I’d rather have none then them having some”

  4. One side of the mouth – we need to the break law to protect Good Friday agreement

    Other side of the mouth – we need to get rid of the ECHR and fuck the Good Friday agreement

  5. This was what people were warning about during the EU referendum. It was called project fear by the people that would love to leave the human rights convention so they can exploit the country even more. A load of people that are going to be even more fucked by these politicians after they scrap human rights accepted the project fear line, hook line and sinker.

  6. I’m just looking forward to the day when we’ve got a proper government again instead of this shower of arseholes.

  7. I’m embarrassed to be considered British. Scotland needs to become independent as the politics coming out of England is giving us a bad name.

  8. Working class Tories: “Get rid of human rights and send them to Rwanda!”

    _Tories start stripping more human rights and now working class Tory is working 20 hour days for £3ph._

    WCT: “Not like that.”

  9. Can this collection of useless, self-serving cunts be deported instead please? Preferably to a country with a population that won’t let them get into power to continue their bullshit.

  10. Part of the Good Friday agreement was based on our commitment to the ECHR and our security co-operation and data sharing with EUROPOL is also dependent on it. That allows for our intelligence sharing and arrests/extradiation of foreign criminals. It’s madness to leave.

    [https://peaceaccords.nd.edu/provision/human-rights-northern-ireland-good-friday-agreement](https://peaceaccords.nd.edu/provision/human-rights-northern-ireland-good-friday-agreement)

    “Human Rights – 1998

    Along with reaffirming a commitment to human rights in the Good Friday Agreement, parties agreed to change legislation in the UK to incorporate the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) of the Northern Ireland Act (1998). The Northern Ireland Act of 1998 also provided for the establishment of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission. After the approval of the agreement in the referendum, The Northern Ireland Act (1998) guaranteed the establishment of the ECHR in Northern Ireland.

    Human Rights – 1999

    The ECHR became effective on 2 December 1999, after the establishment of the Northern Ireland Executive on 29 November 1999.1

    Also, the British government committed to a new statutory Equality Commission to replace the Fair Employment Commission, the Equal Opportunities Commission (NI), the Commission for Racial Equality (NI), and the Disability Council. The establishment of the Equality Commission was provided for in the Northern Ireland Act (1998). The commission finally came into existence on 1 March 19992“The Good Friday Agreement: Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission,” BBC News, May 2006, accessed January 21, 2013, [http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/schools/agreement/equality/hr2.shtm…](http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/schools/agreement/equality/hr2.shtm…) became operational on 1 September 1999.3“The Good Friday Agreement: Equality Commission for Northern Ireland,” BBC News, May 2006,”

    [https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2021/01/17/the-brexit-deal-locks-the-uk-into-continued-strasbourg-human-rights-court-membership/](https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2021/01/17/the-brexit-deal-locks-the-uk-into-continued-strasbourg-human-rights-court-membership/)

    “Chapter 3 entitled ‘Law Enforcement’ is much more specific committing the UK and EU to respect the ECHR and to ‘giving effect to the rights and freedoms in that Convention domestically’ (Article LAW.GEN.3). Even though the government announced a review of the HRA in December, notionally this provision precludes a more ambitious reworking of the Act envisaged in the 2014 Conservative Proposals. This is further strengthened by the provision stating that if the UK withdraws from the ECHR cooperation on Law Enforcement and security ceases, regardless of whether the rest of the treaty is still in force (Article LAW.OTHER.136).”

  11. When you think you couldn’t be more ashamed to be British, the tories once again ask us to hold their beer. This is breathtakingly awful and all to pander to racists and the ignorant. Simply appalling.

  12. ECHR is a prerequisite for the GFA. Leave ECHR and the GFA is over and the EU will immediately shut its borders to us.

    They can’t do this without totally destroying the country.

  13. Chris Morris could deliver this on Brasseye and I’d think it was too ridiculous.

    Let’s bring back heavy electricity and fix the fuel crisis.

  14. At this rate I may aswell say deport me aswell 😅 this country’s gone down the shitter big time

  15. This should come as a surprise to absolutely no-one. Sadly racists, brexiters, and tory supporters keep proving that they’re perfectly fine with the tories fucking us all over as long as it doesn’t affect *them*.

    Let’s see how they feel when it’s *their* rights being stripped away and there’s no-one left to do anything about it.

  16. This, from Priti Patel, who wouldn’t be in this country if her rules were imposed just a few years ago.

  17. It is actually the safe countries that migrants travel through to attempt to reach the UK is the real issue.

    Whether we should take a quota as part of some joined up thinking is a different issue.

    The problem also is the legal aid firms that abuse this legislation.

    All legal immigration welcome but you can’t just turn up without a valid claim, expect to stay at UK expense and get free legal representation. Oh no wait….

    It is easier to repel it all rather than unpick it.

    Just a mess.

  18. We’re facing the worst cost of living crisis in decades and are on the brink of a recession, having never really recovered from the previous one. Yet the government’s priority is laying on flights to send a handful of asylum seekers to an authoritarian dictatorship and starting an ideological trade war with our biggest reading partner.

  19. People don’t want tens of thousands coming into the UK via dinghies from france, like it or not.

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